Censurados Film Festival ()

Festival start: 18 January 2025      Festival end: 24 January 2025

Censurados Film Festival is a film festival that disseminates and makes visible “the cinema they don't want you to see.” Based in Peru, the festival is committed to freedom of expression, human rights and diversity through the screening of films and the organization of artistic and educational activities.

CATEGORIES

1. International Competition “Censorship”. Fiction, documentary, animation and/or cinematographic experimentation films from any part of the world that have been censored due to political, religious, corporate, authoritarian or social pressures or interests, among others, or that have been victims of threats and/or violence, either during its research, production or realization or in its subsequent exhibition and/or distribution. It is an essential requirement to provide demonstrable information about the censorship, threat, pressure or violence that the film has suffered. No duration limit.

2. Short Film Competition “Shorts without Cut”. Fiction, documentary, animation and/or cinematographic experimentation films from anywhere in the world and a maximum duration of 30 minutes that claim freedom of thought and expression without fear of cancellation, and political and social action in matters of public interest.

3. “Peruvian Voices” Competition. Fiction, documentary, animation and/or cinematographic experimentation films from Peru that allow dissident voices to be heard and make the viewer reflect on controversial topics, on which different groups have constructed apparently irreconcilable arguments, in order to create an open and elevated dialogue space on them. No duration limit.

Cash Prizes: 400$

- Scissors for Best Censored Film.

- Scissors for Best Short Film.

- Scissors for Best Peruvian Film.

- Cachivache Prize (1,500 Soles). Recognition that the festival grants each year in honor of Tatiana and her fight for the defense of human rights and freedom of expression. The award will be given to the Peruvian director who stands out for his most combative cinematographic work.

1. Any natural or legal person, individually or collectively, of any nationality may participate.

2. Each participant may send more than one audiovisual work, but it is an essential requirement to complete a registration for each film.

3. Registrations are open for audiovisual works whose production takes place from January 2023 onwards.

4. Only the copyright holder can register a film. The participant assumes responsibility for the veracity of this fact.

5. By registering the film, the participant authorizes three free screenings of the film within the framework of the festival (in person) and renounces all financial remuneration for this concept (except for the Peruvian Official Selection).

6. Selected films that have been duly registered may not be removed from the festival programming.

7. The Festival organization may use still images or fragments of up to three minutes of the selected films in any of its printed, electronic or audiovisual publications. When the duration of the film is less than 30 minutes, the fragments will not exceed 10% of its duration.